charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And I just lost all respect for him, along with any desire to ever see him on screen ever again.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Whales and time travel to the present day. Which is 1986, of course.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

I was 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. Fell asleep before the end.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The Streisand Effect in action.

Before reading this article I had never heard that Mao Zedong's son got himself killed over some fried rice.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“It’s also created the paradox that under Iowa law, a 16-year-old student is old enough to consent to sex but not old enough to read about it in school,” Novack said.

Zing

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 124 points 1 year ago (140 children)

Part of my job is to review security footage for reported incidents.

If there is a long-lasting visual cue that the event has or has not happened yet (e.g. a window is either broken or not), then a binary search is very useful.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

"There's no such thing as an innocent billionaire."

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

The sheer number of people, organizations, and national institutions that fell over each other in scrambling to support Israel/condemn Hammas set off my bullshit detector.

I'm still not taking sides, but the pro-Israel blitzkrieg is so over the top that I don't accept it at face value. Someone's trying to sell me something.

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